Add-on dossier
A linkable lifecycle record for hardware expansions, app ecosystems, firmware upgrades, cases, radio parts, and post-event badge experiments.
The unofficial SAINTCON Badge Museum runs the original 2024 firmware in a browser with a stand-in tower server.
Badge context
Schematic, BOM, Gerbers, and KiCad project for the eight-slot MiniBadge holder that the README describes as a lanyard expansion board.
Schematic symbol for the screw power connections, left, right, upper, and lower klip-on footprints with the badge outline and keep-out areas, and an example two-slot MiniBadge klip-on board.
SAINTCON Badge Museum build of the original 2024 firmware with a stand-in tower server. The museum's code is MIT; the badge firmware stays under its author's terms. Not affiliated with SAINTCON or UtahSAINT.
Repository created August 21, 2024, with the pre-conference README on wrist mounting, klip-ons, and MiniBadges, the board files added November 12, 2024, and the firmware added February 7, 2025. It states no licence.
ESP-IDF 5.3.1 firmware, version 2.6.9, with LVGL 9.2, GT911 touch, IR, accelerometer, charger, USB-C, MiniBadge, Wi-Fi, OTA, API, and Tower Battle components, published February 7, 2025.
Schematic PDF, BOM in PDF and XLSX, Gerber archive, and KiCad project archive for the main badge board.
Gerber and KiCad project archives for the top board that sits over the main board.
Mirrored official BadgeLife page crediting Compukidmike, Redactd, Klipper, V0rtex, Mike's Wife, and BP, with the Klippy-Net Wrist Communicator story, the link to the GitHub repository, the badge FAQ, booth hours, and the booth MiniBadge.
SAINTCON's own saintcon.zip mirror of the 2024 site, giving the October 22-25, 2024 dates, the Utah Valley Convention Center venue, the October 21 trainings, and the sold-out notice.
Source trail
Secondary community source that names the 2024 badge the Tower Battle wrist badge by compukidmike and runs its original firmware with a stand-in tower server.
Primary source for the BadgeLife team credits, the Klippy-Net Wrist Communicator and Klippy AI framing, the early release of badge information, the link to compukidmike/Saintcon2024, the badge-game FAQ, booth hours, and the booth MiniBadge. It gives no specification, quantity, or allocation.
Primary source for the October 22-25, 2024 dates, the Utah Valley Convention Center venue in Provo, the October 21 trainings, and the sold-out conference. It does not describe the badge.
Archived primary source for the 2025 page's account of the Klippy AI storyline, with 2024 as its second chapter.
Primary designer source for the wrist mount with a velcro sweatband and a lanyard option, the 3V3 and GND screws that power klip-ons, the off-centre screen opening, the two-slot I2C MiniBadge klip-on included with every badge, and the eight-slot USB-powered MiniBadge expansion board without I2C.
Primary designer source for the component list: ESP32-S3-WROOM-1, 2.8-inch IPS touch LCD, IR12-21C IR LED, TSOP752xx receiver, MC3419, TCA9544A, BQ24296M, PI5USB30216C, AP22816, AP7361C, TPM8837 described as driving the CLK pins, and a 1500 mAh LiPo.
Primary source, published February 7, 2025 in a commit by David Warkentin, for the ESP32-S3 target with 16 MB flash, the i80 LCD and GT911 touch configuration, version 2.6.9, the 11-tower tracker, NEC-style IR framing, the sc24.redactd.net API base, the two-hour OTA check, and MiniBadge scanning.